Cards don't trade Fitzgerald at deadline

Summary of 2 articles · Updated Oct 30, 2013

Last Sunday morning, ESPN reported that some league executives expected Fitzgerald and the Cardinals to part this off-season, if not by Tuesday’s trade deadline. Like a new team having the cap space to acquire Fitzgerald. Arizona was thrust into the cente… (more)r of the trade-deadline circus Sunday when ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter reported that Fitzgerald could be traded in the offseason if he wasn’t already moved by Tuesday’s deadline. That’s been obvious since the summer of 2011, when Fitzgerald signed a new contract that included $45million guaranteed. The decision stand pat means the Cardinals will take on the final eight weeks with what they have, with the potential for a few minor shakeups at the bottom of the roster a sign that Keim and coach Bruce Arians believe they could reach the playoffs with their current charges.

Arizonans have a handful of October rituals, like opening up the house for the first time since April, overseeding the yard and listening or reading "reports" that Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald could be traded before Halloween. A year ag…